Games like Warlord
If Warlord is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fantasy Map Simulator, Drag and Conquer and Historarium — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Warlord: Warlord is a fantasy map simulator where factions build, expand, and fight on their own. Create custom maps, scenarios, factions, and units. Then watch your world come to life.
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Steam players who put hours into Warlord also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Fantasy Map Simulator
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Top pick for Warlord fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Warlord.
Fantasy Map Simulator: Create and watch imaginary worlds evolve over centuries. Design maps, simulate nations and their politics, and control destinies. See empires rise and fall on your desktop wallpaper. A unique simulation for history buffs and creative minds.
Drag and Conquer
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Second-strongest match for Warlord fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Warlord.
A fast-paced, easy-to-learn grand strategy game. Drag your orders across the map and conquer enemy territory. Manage your economy to keep your armies supplied with troops and equipment. Play historical 20th-century scenarios or create your own in an advanced editor.
Historarium
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Third-strongest match for Warlord fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Warlord.
Shape continents, civilizations, and see the rise and fall of empires. Follow individual characters as they rise to power. Or as mighty rulers fall to irrelevance. Create nations and see them evolve through the centuries. Or destroy it all and watch civilization react to your actions.
Mini WW2 Simulator: Gear and War
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Ranked #4 for Warlord fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Warlord.
A WW2 god-simulation game where you observe or influence nations’ military development and the course of war. Customize WWII unit loadouts, edit formations, and deploy infantry, artillery, and armored forces to shape the outcome of battles.
The Stars Are Never Still
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Ranked #5 for Warlord fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Warlord.
The Stars Are Never Still is a 2D space sandbox. Shape a galaxy and watch 16 unique races colonize, trade, ally, betray and wage war. Observe, or intervene with technology, aid, discord, disasters, new life—even black holes. Chronicle millennia of history. No set goals. No empire lasts forever.
Civitas: World Simulator
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Ranked #6 for Warlord fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Warlord.
Civitas: World Simulator is a deep historical-fantasy simulation where nations will dynamically rise, fall, and evolve. In this game we model internal forces like ethnicity, culture, language and other inner political struggles.
Things That Happen on the Map - Realm Simulator
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Ranked #7 for Warlord fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Warlord.
A sandbox world simulator where you generate a world and watch history emerge from interacting systems. Track wars, alliances, economies, cities, families, and individuals, then zoom from shifting borders to personal lives.
Ages of Conflict: World War Simulator
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Ranked #8 for Warlord fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Simulation with Warlord.
Ages of Conflict is a versatile Map Simulation game where you create and observe custom AI nations battle it out across an infinite number of worlds. Paint beautiful maps and scenarios, and command nations to change history into your liking!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Warlord.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Warlord.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Warlord.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Warlord.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Warlord.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Warlord.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
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Frequently asked about Warlord
- What games are most similar to Warlord?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Warlord are Fantasy Map Simulator, Drag and Conquer, Historarium.
- Who developed Warlord?
- Warlord was developed by Baby War Elephant.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Warlord.
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